Postdoctoral Researcher DTU Compute, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Cognitive Systems Section Technical University of Denmark · Copenhagen, Denmark · 2023 – Present
Working on the Reading the Reader (RtR) project funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant NF22OC0076877), in collaboration with Associate Professor Per Bækgaard and the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation. Research combines eye-tracking, pupillometry, Bayesian modelling, and adaptive AI interfaces to understand and support individual reading patterns.
Postdoctoral Researcher Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR), Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Cambridge, UK · 2021 – 2023
Contributed to the WorkingAge project (EU Horizon 2020, grant No. 826232). Developed affective computing systems for inferring workers’ emotional states using facial analysis, dimensional affect modelling (valence/arousal), and multimodal sensing in naturalistic work-like environments.
PhD in Computer Science Aalborg University, Denmark · 2017 – 2021 Jointly conducted within the Visual Analysis & Perception (VAP) and Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) Labs. Thesis: Facial Emotion Recognition for Citizens with Traumatic Brain Injury for Therapeutic Robot Interaction
MSc in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Coventry University, UK · 2015 – 2016 Awarded the Global Leadership Certificate (GLC) for organising seminars, events, and talks under the Global Leadership Programme.
| Year | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | CtxRead: Context Preservation Through Eye Tracking | ACM ETRA 2025 |
| 2025 | RtR-AI: Reading the Reader’s Mind through Eye Tracking | ACM ETRA 2025 |
| 2026 | NLIR-BERT: Native Language Identification from Gaze | IEEE ICCCMLA 2025 |
| 2021 | WorkAffect: Inferring User Facial Affect in Work-like Settings | arXiv / WorkingAge |
Science communication written during my PostDoc at Cambridge AFAR Lab, published on the WorkingAge project blog:
| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| Sep 2020 | International Networking Innovation Fund, Denmark (Applied in collaboration) |
| Nov 2018 | Research Stay Abroad Grant |
| Feb 2018 | Otto Mønsted Conference Grant |
| 2018–2020 | Board Member, PhD Network Association, Aalborg University (PAU) |
| Jan 2016 | Global Leadership Certificate (GLC), Coventry University |
| Aug 2015 | Travel Grant for Industry Visits — Airbus & Volkswagen, Germany |
| Jun 2015 | Research Assistantship, Coventry University, UK |
| Apr 2015 | 2nd Prize, NEC Birmingham Engineering & Design Competition, UK |
| Mar 2015 | Cultural Mundi Representative, Coventry University, UK |
| 2010–2011 | “Talent Award” (×2), Study Aid Foundation for Excellence (SAFE) |
| Project | Funder | Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Reading the Reader (RtR) | Novo Nordisk Foundation | NF22OC0076877 |
| WorkingAge | EU Horizon 2020 | No. 826232 |
Eye-tracking & Signal Processing — Tobii · TEPR · I2MC fixation detection · Hampel filtering · Gaussian smoothing · Growth Curve Analysis (GCA)
Bayesian & Statistical Modelling — PyMC · MCMC · Hierarchical models · LOO-CV · Bundesen’s TVA · Posterior predictive checks
Machine Learning & AI — PyTorch · TensorFlow · Keras · BERT · Computer Vision · Facial Expression Recognition
Programming — Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, OpenCV, Matplotlib) · MATLAB · R
Research Methods — Psychophysics · Within-subjects experimental design · Dimensional affect modelling · HCI user studies